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Complete plans, adaptable to any city in the United States, for an ef fective “Own Your Own Home” campaign, have been formulated by the U. S. Department of labor and the literature is now ready for distri bution through the Divison of Pub li Works and Construction Develop ment of the Department. Twenty cities already are getting under way with their drives for home building and home owning. To supervise the formulation of these plans, Paul C. Murphy of Port land, Oregon, for two years working on “Own Your Own Home” work was brought to Washington. In con sultation with Department of Labor officials and several of the leading authorities on building in the United States, Mr. Murphy has drafted the campaign manual, now available for such cities and individuals as are in terested in promoting home owning. The “Own Your Own Home” bur eau in the Division of Public Works, and Construction Development will serve as an advisory board to the managements of these local cam paigns, where requested, and will ex tend ‘the fullest cooperation to every city in the country which undertakes a campaign. Briefly, the campaign plan con templates a General Committee made up of civic and industrial leaders, with someone whose standing in the community justifies his selection, as the chief executive official. Under the general committees are such subcommittees as have been found essential. The manual sug gests the prudence of having vigor ous committees on Finance, Public ity, and Campaign Methods, Mercan tile Institutions, Public Service Cor poration, Education, Religious Activi ties, Industrial Workers and Labor Unions, Hotels and Restaurants, Ex hibits and Management of Head quarters, Women's Clubs, Speakers and Meetings, Poster Contests, Civic Bodies, Theatres and Amusements, Transportation and Automobiles, In dustrial Plants, Music, Printing and Supplies and Donations. _ The function of each committee is explained in detail in the Depart ment's manual together wih sugges tions on handling specific problems which invariably result in the “Own Your Own Home” campaign. In the Department of Labor's plan of campaign the women, churches and labor organizations play an im portant part. The entire campaign is pitched on a civic betterment plane rather than on a purely commercial basis and the appeal is more on the line of what each business group can put “in,” rather than what it can get “out” of the movement. It is a one hundred percent Greater City move ment, having in mind only the incal culable permanent benefits to the community and the immediate help fulness to the nation during the transition from war mobilization to peace production. The Department of Labor emphasizes these benefits which may be expected from the Own Your Own Home Movement. 1. It will provide better living conditions, increase efficiency, en courage thrift, give greater comfort and happiness and create individual reserves for misfortune and old age. Every house owner with his family, whether rich, poor, or well-to-do, be comes thereby a better citizen, with increased self-respect, independence and responsibility to the city and na tion and are more vitally interested in the welfare and prosperity of both. 2 That during the readjustment period, such a movement hastens the return of normal conditions; results in much needed construction for home and industrial purposes; provides work for returning soldiers and sail ors and for labor changing from war to peace industries; stimulates all lines of business in each commun ity, creates general prosperity. ‘The fact that all these are patrio tic in purpose does not eliminate the certainty of their being materially profitable to the legal communities and, in the long run, the community which makes it easiest to build and theapest to build, will reap the great est material benefits. Not only has the Department of Labor set out in detail the plan for o f ur “Own Your Own Home” campaign. It is preparing publicity matter which is to be placed at the disposal of the local committees and will, where communities can show such action is necessary to the inau guration of the campaign, send an expert to assist in the organizing and getting the movement under way. The “Own Your Own Home” movement as outlined by the Depart ment of Labor was one of the pro positions submitted to the recent conference of Governors and May ors in Washington where it met, with enthusiastic encouragement and sup port, many of the Governors and, Mayors expressing the determination to return to their districts and inter est themselves in getting such cam paigns under way.
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The Evening Caledonian
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, US
Wed, Mar 26, 1919
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